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And while we are at it, I think vegetable and fruit farmers need to be stopped too. I was visiting a farm the other day and I watched as the pickers ripped the fruit right off the tree! It was horrific! Those poor trees being raped of their beautiful fruit. And then I watched a farmer till a field uprooting quiet and peace-loving potatoes. Imagine being forcibly uprooted like that. STOP FRUIT AND VEGETABLE VIOLENCE NOW! WWW.PETAP.ORG (People for the Ethical Treatment of Agricultural Products) - Is follow up to post by FoisGras ...
ABC7 I-Team Expose of Aqua!
http://tinyurl.com/o6g6
Here's an excerpt of an exchange between Owner/Chef Laurent Manrique and report Dan Noyes -
Laurent Manrique: "If you go to the farm, there is a machine with a small tube this size, you know, and the farmer takes the duck and just pull the tube right at the entrance of the beak."
Then, we showed him the reality of force-feeding.
Dan Noyes: "This is Sonoma Foie Gras."
At least three times a day, a worker grabs each duck, shoves a long, thick metal tube down its throat and an air pump shoots up to a pound of corn into the duck.
Laurent Manrique: "So, for me it's not surprising, this is a natural process."
Dan Noyes: "The impression you gave me just a moment before though was a little better than that, I mean, you said they basically put it into the mouth not very far. That thing's going well down into their throat, all the way to their crop."
Laurent Manrique: "Uh-huh. You should put it on TV. That's the normal process."
The tube sometimes perforates the side of the duck's throat, causing scarring and other damage. And, the large amount of food has an impact.
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The activists found barrels of ducks that died before their livers could be harvested, others still barely alive. They also watched ducks too weak or overweight to defend themselves against the rats at Sonoma Foie Gras. Rats were eating these two ducks alive and you can see evidence of similar battles on several other ducks.
-- 9/21/2003 11:23:00 PM
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